Philadelphia (1993) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 29 titles created 24 Oct 2011 a list of 25 titles created 17 Jul 2012 a list of 42 titles created 01 Dec 2013 a list of 45 titles created 02 Apr 2015 a list of 37 titles created 6 months ago Search for " Philadelphia " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 16 nominations.

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Middleton {gamidd01@morehead-st.edu} Taglines: No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system. Genres: Rated PG-13 for some graphic language and thematic material | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 14 January 1994 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia The film's journey from script to screen was an extraordinary rocky one. The script underwent over 25 major revisions, the film's rights were embroiled in bankruptcy proceedings, and the subject matter sparked some major protests. See more » Goofs When Andy steps out of Joe's office (after Joe's rejection to become Andy's lawyer), you see him standing and reflecting on his situation. He turns his head to the left, and you can see the lining of a rubber mask on his neck(used to make Hanks' head look shaved). See more » Quotes Joe Miller : What do you love about the law, Andrew? Andrew Beckett : [from the witness stand] I... many things... uh... uh... What I love the most about the law?

See more » Crazy Credits "This motion picture was inspired in part by Geoffrey Bowers' AIDS discrimination lawsuit, the courage and love of the Angius family and the struggles of the many others who, along with their loved ones, have experienced discrimination because of AIDS." See more » Connections – See all my reviews This movie was fantastic.I am a huge Tom Hanks fan. This was one of those movies that really show if an actor really knows how to act. Denzel Washington, I think, should have won the "Supporting Actor" award for 1993 because he was exceptional in the movie. I really enjoyed watching this movie because it made you laugh and cry and very few movies do that. Tom Hanks is the only actor to win two consecutive "Best Actor" awards (Philadelphia and Forrest Gump) and I think Philadelphia was the start of his superior career in acting. In conclusion, I rate Philadelphia a 10 and I recommend it to all Tom Hanks fans. 40 of 61 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Movie Review - - Review/Film: Philadelphia; Tom Hanks as an AIDS Victim Who Fights the Establishment - NYTimes.com Review/Film: Philadelphia; Tom Hanks as an AIDS Victim Who Fights the Establishment By JANET MASLIN Published: December 22, 1993 For a film maker who thrives on taking chances, "Philadelphia" sounds like the biggest gamble of all. As the first high-profile Hollywood film to take the AIDS plague seriously, Jonathan Demme's latest work has stubborn preconceptions to overcome as well as enormous potential to make waves. What it does not have, despite the fine acting and immense decency that give it substance, is much evidence of Mr. Demme's usual daring. Maybe that's not surprising: it isn't easy to leave fingerprints when you're wearing kid gloves. Hollywood's past reluctance to take on AIDS isn't strictly a matter of cowardice. This subject, with all its anguished inevitability, does not easily lend itself to run-of-the-mill movie methods. If the theater has led the way, with works as different as "Jeffrey" and "Angels in America," it also has more freedom to experiment with format.

Conventional wisdom has it that a big-budget film needs reassuring familiarity if it means to play at the multiplex, even if Mr. Demme proved otherwise with his bracingly tough "Silence of the Lambs." If the dread-disease drama has often been relegated to television, there, too, AIDS has proved daunting: HBO's attention-getting "And the Band Played On" was a much more tepid undertaking than "Philadelphia" turns out to be. Unlike that obviously hamstrung dramatization, "Philadelphia" mostly succeeds in being forceful, impassioned and moving, sometimes even rising to the full range of emotion that its subject warrants. But too often, even at its most assertive, it works in safely predictable ways. "Philadelphia," which has the year's most elegant and apt movie title, begins with great promise and with a reminder of what the unfettered Mr. Demme can do. A stirring montage of Philadelphia street life, accompanied by a mournfully beautiful new Bruce Springsteen song, offers a resounding sense of vitality and communal obligation. (The film is suffused with haunting music, with operatic arias used much too pointedly in several places and Neil Young's title song floating gently through its final scene.) Mr.

Demme knows how to breathe both hope and frustration into the promise of brotherly love. Soon afterward, Mr. Demme shows an equally impressive tact as he introduces Andrew Beckett, the lawyer played by Tom Hanks. First seen defending a construction company accused of spreading pestilent dust, Andrew is next shown visiting a clinic for AIDS treatment. The film attaches no fanfare to this information, and it spares the audience a melodramatic scene in which Andrew's AIDS is first diagnosed. Likewise, it presents his mother (Joanne Woodward) as determinedly brave and well aware of her son's situation. With these touches, the film promises not to exploit its subject in maudlin ways, and that is a promise it keeps. Mr. Demme and his screenwriter, Ron Nyswaner, elect to dramatize their material by presenting AIDS as a cause as well as a personal calamity. So "Philadelphia" gives Andrew a tangible grievance. First, he is established as an ambitious, gung-ho young corporate lawyer. "Outstanding!" exclaims Andrew, upon hearing that the firm has landed an important account. Next, he is seen arousing suspicion among the firm's equally hearty senior partners.

"What's that on your forehead, pal?" one of them asks, staring at a Kaposi's sarcoma lesion. "Oh, that!" says Andrew, with the forced heartiness that hides his real nature, and as such is the habit of a lifetime. "I got whacked in the head with a racquetball." Nobody believes him. When Andrew is summarily fired on a trumped-up charge of incompetence, the film gives him a mission: to sue his former firm for wrongful termination and to fight the bigotry faced by people with AIDS. Admirable as this is in the abstract, it steers the movie in exactly the wrong direction. "Philadelphia" winds up centered on the courtroom, devoting an inordinate amount of time to what should only have been this story's MacGuffin, a minor but galvanizing plot device. The courtroom scenes, which lack suspense and too often have a soapbox tenor, will not tell the audience anything it doesn't already know. A much more interesting side of "Philadelphia" depicts the relationship between Andrew and Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), his anti-gay, ambulance-chasing lawyer.

("We take no cash unless we get cash justice for you," Joe informs one potential client.) Reluctant to take Andrew's case at first, and flaunting his fears and prejudices with his doctor and his wife, Joe changes gratifyingly during the course of the story. Mr. Hanks gives a brave, stirring, tremendously dignified performance as a man slowly wasting away. But Mr. Washington, who is also very fine as the small-minded shyster who becomes a crusading hero, has the better role. It shouldn't have been that way. But Mr. Nyswaner's screenplay allows Andrew almost nothing in the way of individual characteristics. It makes him a gay Everyman whose love of opera -- awkwardly underscored in a scene that shows the audience how little it really knows about Andrew -- hardly qualifies as a distinctive trait. Andrew's domestic relationship with Miguel (Antonio Banderas) is presented so sketchily that it barely seems real. The screenplay's tendency to evade and overgeneralize is not helped by the depiction of gay men as gentle souls, straight men as bigots, and Andrew's large family as a monolithic, enlightened entity.

Andrew's father: "We're incredibly proud of you." Andrew's mother: "You get in there and you fight for your rights." Andrew: "Gee, I love you guys." Most of "Philadelphia" is a lot better than that. Neither Mr. Demme's attention to detail nor his talent for tight, urgent storytelling has let him down. He has assembled a large, expertly cast group of actors to fill out the film's background, among them Ron Vawter as the law firm's one conscience-stricken partner, Jason Robards as its overbearing patriarch, Anna Deavere Smith as an astute paralegal and Robert Castle (the priest who is Mr. Demme's cousin, and the subject of his "Cousin Bobby") as Andrew's father. Ms. Woodward is especially memorable in a brief but luminous appearance. And Mary Steenburgen has the potentially interesting role of a ruthless, sarcastic defense attorney determined to wear down a now-frail Andrew when he gets to the courtroom. But even here, the film pulls its punches. After conducting a particularly grueling cross-examination, Ms.

Steenburgen is allowed to acquit herself by muttering "I hate this case!" "Philadelphia" may be equivocal in its attitudes, but Mr. Demme will never make a film that lacks visual color. Tak Fujimoto, Craig McKay and Kristi Zea, who have collaborated with the director before as cinematographer, editor and production designer, respectively, give the film a warm, believable look and a vigorous pace. Mention should also be made of Carl Fullerton's makeup, which makes sure that Mr. Hanks's transformation from robust lawyer to visibly suffering AIDS patient will not soon be forgotten. In the end, thanks to such effects and to the simple grace of Mr. Hanks's performance, this film does accomplish what it means to. "Philadelphia" rises above its flaws to convey the full urgency of its difficult subject, and to bring that subject home. "Philadelphia" is rated PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned). It includes mild profanity and brief nudity. Philadelphia Directed by Jonathan Demme; written by Ron Nyswaner; director of photography, Tak Fujimoto; edited by Craig McKay; music by Howard Shore; production designer, Kristi Zea; produced by Edward Saxon and Mr.

Demme; released by Tri-Star Pictures. At the Gemini, Second Avenue and 64th Street, Manhattan. Running time: 119 minutes. This film is rated PG-13. Andrew Beckett . . . Tom Hanks Joe Miller . . . Denzel Washington Sarah Beckett . . . Joanne Woodward Charles Wheeler . . . Jason Robards Belinda Conine . . . Mary Steenburgen Miguel Alvarez . . . Antonio Banderas Bud Beckett . . . Robert Castle Bob Seidman . . . Ron Vawter Anthea Buton . . . Anna Deavere Smith Philadelphia (1993) - Movie | Moviefone Moviefone find it. watch it. search movies, tv, zip codes & more press enter to see all results More on Moviefone... DVD Release Date: August 26th, 1997 PG-13|2 hr 2 min Follow the movie on Facebook Plot Summary Fearing it would compromise his career, lawyer Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) hides his homosexuality and HIV status at a powerful Philadelphia law firm. But his secret is exposed when a colleague spots the illness's telltale lesions.

Fired shortly afterwards, Beckett resolves to sue for discrimination, teaming up with Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), the only lawyer willing to help. In court, they face one of his ex-employer's top litigators, Belinda Conine (Mary Steenburgen). PHILADELPHIA (1993) Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington PHILADELPHIA (1993) Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington Civil lawsuit by associate (Andrew Beckett) against his law firm under the Americans with Disabilities Act for firing him when they found out he had AIDS. ************ PLAINTIFF'S OPENING ******** 1) PL. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There's not going to be any last-minute surprise witnesses, nobody is going to break down on the stand with a tearful confession. You're going to be presented with simple fact. Andrew Beckett was fired. You'll hear two explanations for why he was fired, ours and theirs. It is up to you to sift through layer upon layer of truth until you determine for yourselves which version sounds the most true. There are certain points which I must prove to you.

Point number one, Andrew Beckett was. . .is a brilliant lawyer, great lawyer. Point number two, Andrew Beckett, afflicted with a debilitating disease, made the understandable, the personal, the legal choice to keep the fact of his illness to himself. Point number three, his employers discovered his illness, and ladies and gentlemen, the illness I am referring to is AIDS. Point number four, they panicked. And in their panic, they did what most of us would like to do with AIDS, which is just get it, and everybody who has it, as far away from the rest of us as is possible. Now, the behavior of Andrew Beckett's employers may seem reasonable to you. It does to me. After all, AIDS is a deadly, incurable disease. But no matter how you come to judge Charles Wheeler and his partners, in ethical, moral, and in human terms, the fact of the matter is, when they fired Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS, they broke the law. ********** DEFENSE OPENING ************** 2) DF. Fact. Andrew Beckett's performance on the job varied from competent, good, to often times mediocre, to sometimes flagrantly incompetent. Fact.

He claims he's the victim of lies and deceit. Fact. It was Andrew Beckett who lied, going to great lengths to conceal his disease from his employers. Fact. He was successful in his duplicity. The partners at Wyant-Wheeler did not know that Andrew Beckett had AIDS when they fired him. Fact. Andrew Beckett is dying. Fact. Andrew Beckett is angry, because his lifestyle, his reckless behavior, has cut short his life. And in his anger, his rage, he is lashing out. And he wants someone to pay. Thank you. * * * * * direct ******* 3) Q. Andrew Beckett represented your company in a lawsuit in 1990, is that correct? A. That's correct. 4) Q. Were you pleased with his work? A. We were satisfied with the outcome of the litigation. 5) Q. Satisfied. Mr. Laird, when I approached you about being a witness at this trial, you gave sworn testimony in a deposition, is that correct? A. That's correct. 6) Q. In that deposition, you said that you were impressed and delighted with the quality of Andrew Beckett's work, do you recall saying that?

A. In all honesty, I was delighted with certain aspects of Andy's efforts. But in general, I found the work to be merely satisfactory. 7) Q. Uh-huh. Do you agree that a bologna sandwich is a satisfactory meal, whereas caviar and champagne, roast duck and baked Alaska, that might be considered a delightful meal? OBJ. We object, these gastronomical comments are irrelevant to these proceedings, your Honor. Plaintiff. No, they are not irrelevant. Your Honor, five months ago this witness characterized Andrew Beckett as caviar, now he's calling him a bologna sandwich. I think that the jury is entitled to know what powerful force has caused him to change his mind. JUDGE. He hasn't changed his mind. He's amplified his answer. Objection sustained. 8) Q. All right. All right, Mr. Laird, explain this to me like I'm a four-year-old, okay? Did Andrew Beckett win your lawsuit for you? A. Yes. We won. 9) Q. Ah, congratulations, that must have been a very satisfactory experience. *********** direct ************* 10) Q. Ms.

Benedict, is it true that you worked for Walsh, Omer and Bromm three years ago at the same time as Walter Kenton? A. That's correct. 11) Q. And at that time, did Walter Kenton know the lesions on your face and arms were caused by AIDS? A. Definitely. I told all the partners. 12) Q. And how did Walter Kenton treat you after you told him you had AIDS? A. Every time he'd come into contact with me he'd get this look on his face...I referred to it as the "oh, God" expression, as in, "oh, God, here comes that woman with AIDS." Thank you, Ms. Benedict. No more questions, your Honor. *********** cross ********** 13) Q. Ms. Benedict, how did you contract the AIDS virus? A. Through a transfusion. I lost a lot of blood giving birth to my second child. 14) Q. So in other words, in your case, there was no behavior on your part that caused you to be infected with the virus, it was something that you were unable to avoid, is that correct? A. I guess.

ATTY: Thank you. WIT. But I don't consider myself any different from anyone else with this disease. I'm not guilty, I'm not innocent, I'm just trying to survive. ATTY: Thank you, Ms. Benedict. No further questions at this time, your Honor. * * ******** direct ********* 15) Q. Beyond noticing the marks on his face, were there other things about his appearance, Ms. Burton, that made you suspect that Andrew had AIDS? A. Well, he was getting thinner and he seemed very tired sometimes. But he was working so hard.. Still, I felt something was wrong, and I can't believe they're trying to pretend that they didn't notice anything. DEFENSE: Objection. JUDGE. Just answer the question, please. 16) Q. Have you ever felt discriminated against at Wyant-Wheeler? A. Well, yes. 17) Q. In what way? A. Well, Mr. Wheeler's secretary, Lydia, said that Mr. Wheeler had a problem with my earrings. 18) Q. Really? A. Apparently, Mr.

Wheeler felt that they looked too...ethnic, is the word she used...and she told me that he said that he would like it if I wore something a little less garish, a little smaller, and more "American." 19) Q. What'd you say? A. I said my earring are American, they're African-American. JUDGE. Order, please. ATTY: Thank you, no more questions. ********** cross *********** 20) Q. Ms. Burton, weren't you recently promoted? A. Yes, I'm in charge of the paralegal department. 21) Q. Congratulations on your unfettered ascendancy at Wyant-Wheeler. A. Well, I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it unfettered, I mean... 22) Q. I don't understand. How do you explain the promotion of an obviously intelligent, articulate, qualified African-American woman in a firm which practices discrimination as wantonly and consistently as you and Mr. Beckett explain? A. I can't explain it. 23) Q.

Could it be that these instances of discrimination are, in fact, misunderstandings that have been blown completely out of proportion? A. I think counsel tends to oversimplify the issue somewhat. ATTY: Well, thank you, Ms. Burton, I'll take that note under consideration. ********** direct ************* 24) Q. Please continue, Ms. O'Hara. A. We were going crazy looking for this complaint. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. Mr. Beckett was screaming at everybody, and he just, he looked so freaky, and Mr. Kenton kept saying "you lost the Highline complaint?" and he called Mr. Wheeler, and all of a sudden Jamie comes in with the complaint in his hand, and he says "it was in Central Files, Andy." 25) Q. Central Files? A. Central Files is a place where paperwork is sent when cases are closed. Jamie ran it over to the court just in time, and everybody just stood there, completely wasted. And Mr. Beckett just kept saying "I'm sorry, sorry, I don't understand this." Thank you, Ms. O'Hara. No further questions at this time, your Honor.

************ direct ********** 26) Q. May I? [offers a handkerchief] A. Certainly. . 27) Q. Are you okay? A. Yes. Q. Want a glass of water or something? A. No. 28) Q. Was Andy a good boss? A. Yes. He was very sweet. 29) Q. How would you characterize his work as an attorney? A. How would I know? I just worked for him. DEFENSE. Excuse me, your Honor, is this for the record? JUDGE. Mr. Miller, perhaps you should return to the counsel's table. 30) Q. Yes, sir. Miss O'Hara. A. Yes? Q. Were you aware at any time of any problems that the senior partners had with the quality of Andrew's work prior to this missing file episode? A. No, no I wasn't. ATTY. Thank you. No more questions, your Honor. ******** direct ************* 31) Q. Is Andrew Beckett the kind of lawyer who misplaces crucial documents? A. Not to my knowledge. No. 32) Q. Mr.

Collins, if you wanted to make a lawyer look incompetent, would this be a good way of going about it? Hiding an important document, maybe for a few hours, and then making it look like the responsible lawyer misplaced it? A. Why would Mr. Wheeler and the others behave so outrageously? Because they found out Andy was sick? 33) Q. Perhaps. A. We have lawyers who've had heart attacks, ulcers, prostate cancer, leukemia...no one sandbagged them. 34) Q. Did you have something to do with this file being lost accidentally on purpose? Defense. Objection. Q. I'll rephrase. Did you have anything to do with this file being misplaced? A. Absolutely not. 35) Q. Are you a homosexual? A. What? 36) Q. Are you a homosexual? Answer the question. Are you a homo? Are you a faggot? You know, a punk, a queen, pillow-biter, fairy, booty-snatcher, rump-roaster? Are you gay? DEFENSE. Objection! Where did this come from? Suddenly counsel's attacking his own witness? Mr.

Collins' sexual orientation has nothing to do with this case! JUDGE. Please have a seat, Ms. Conine. Would you approach the bench, Mr. Miller? Would you kindly share with me exactly what's going on inside your head? Because at this moment I don't have a clue. PLAINTIFF. Your Honor, everybody in this courtroom is thinking about sexual orientation, you know, sexual preference, whatever you want to call it. Who does what to whom and how they do it. I mean, they're looking at Andrew Beckett, they're thinking about it. They're looking at Mr. Wheeler, Ms. Conine, even you, your Honor. They're wondering about it. Trust me, I know that they are looking at me and thinking about it. So let's just get it out in the open, let's get it out of the closet. Because this case is not just about AIDS, is it? So let's talk about what this case is really all about, the general public's hatred, our loathing, our fear of homosexuals, and how that climate of hatred and fear translated into the firing of this particular homosexual, my client, Andrew Beckett. JUDGE.

Please have a seat, Mr. Miller. Very good. In this courtroom, Mr. Miller, justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion and sexual orientation. PLAINTIFF. With all due respect, your Honor, we don't live in this courtroom, though, do we? JUDGE. No, we don't. However, as regards this witness, I'm going to sustain the defense's objection. ********* direct of adverse witness *********** 37) Q. How many weeks at a time would you be out at sea without stopping at a port? A. Oh, uh, anywhere from 2 weeks to several months. 38) Q. Any women on board? A. Not when I was in the Navy. 39) Q. So, during these long voyages, months at a time, out to sea, no women in sight, hundreds of hard-working, robust young men in the prime of their natural appetites and desires, their God-given hormonal instincts...anything going on? A. Uh, going on? Like what? 40) Q. Like, you know, two sailors down below making flippy-flop? DEFENSE. Objection. A.

We had one guy like that. DF. You haven't ruled on my objection, your Honor. JUDGE. Go on, Mr. Miller. 41) Q. You had one guy 'like that.' You mean a homosexual? A. He, uh, strutted around quarters naked trying to get everybody to notice him. Made everyone sick. It was destroying our morale. So we let him know this kind of behavior was not acceptable. 42) Q. How'd you do that, what, you wrote him a letter? A. We stuck his head in a latrine after ten of us had used it. 43) Q. Ah, you taught him a lesson, didn't you? A. Yes, we did. 44) Q. Just like firing Andrew Beckett taught him a lesson. DEFENSE. Objection. 45) Q. I withdraw. You were aware when you worked with Melissa Benedict that she had AIDS, is that correct? A. She didn't try to conceal it. 46) Q. So you are aware of the difference between a bruise and a lesion, is that correct? A. Beckett told me he had been hit by a racquetball and I believed him.

47) Q. Didn't you try to avoid contact with Ms. Benedict after you found out she had AIDS? She says, and I quote, that you were repulsed by her, you avoided her, is that correct? A. I felt, and I still feel, nothing but the deepest sympathy for people like Melissa who contracted this terrible disease through no fault of their own. ************* direct of Plaintiff ************** Place your left hand on the Bible, raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? I do. Please be seated. 48) Q. Andrew, can you describe the circumstances under which you joined the firm Wyant Wheeler Hellerman Tetlow & Brown? A. Wyant Wheeler aggressively recruited me, they were the most prestigious firm in Philadelphia, full of opportunity, and I was impressed with the partners. 49) Q. Including Charles Wheeler? A. Particularly Charles. 50) Q. What impressed you about him? A. He was the kind of lawyer I thought I wanted to be. 51) Q. And what kind of lawyer is that? A.

Possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of the law, a razor-sharp litigator, genuine leader, gifted at bringing out the very best in others, and an awesome ability to illuminate the most complex of legal concepts to a colleague, to a courtroom, to a man in the street. The kind of person who can play 3 sets of tennis but doesn't sweat. Underneath an elegant surface, he has an adventurous spirit. 52) Q. So in the years you worked at Wyant Wheeler, did you ever tell Charles Wheeler you were gay? A. No, I didn't. 53) Q. Why not? A. You don't bring your personal life into a law firm, you're not supposed to have a personal life, really. Anyway, I did plan to tell Charles eventually, but then this, oh, something happened at the racquet club about 3 years ago...somebody started telling some jokes. *****Flashback sequence ********* What do you call a woman who has PMS and ESP at the same time? I don't know, Roger, what do you call her? A bitch who knows everything. Sounds like someone I know. Hey Walter, how does a faggot fake an orgasm?

He throws a quart of hot yogurt on your back. *****end flashback***** 54) Q. How did that make you feel? A. Relieved that I never told him I was gay. Just very relieved. 55) Q. All right, um, are you a good lawyer, Andrew? A. I'm an excellent lawyer. 56) Q. What makes you an excellent lawyer? A. I love the law. I know the law. I excel at practicing. 57) Q. What do you love about the law, Andrew? A. I.. Many things. What do I love the most about the law? 58) Q. Yes. A. It's that every now and again, not often, but occasionally, you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens. ATTY: Thank you, Andrew. ******** cross ************** 59) Q. You said earlier you aspired to be the kind of person who had an adventurous spirit. Is that correct? A. Something like that. 60) Q. Do you take risks? A. In my work, yes, calculated risks, you have to. 61) Q.

Did your doctor ever tell you to reduce stress, that long hours and stressful working conditions might damage the immune system and speed up your illness? A. My doctor mentioned the impact that AIDS...excuse me...my doctor mentioned the impact that stress can have on the immune system. 62) Q. Have you ever been to the Stallion Showcase Cinema on 21st street? A. I've been to that.. I've been to that theatre.. three times in my life. 63) Q. What kind of movies do they show there? A. Gay movies. 64) Q. Gay pornographic movies? A. Yes. DEFENSE. Your Honor, this line of questioning is vital to the issue of credibility. JUDGE. Let's, ah, let's see where this is going. Continue, counselor. 65) Q. Do men have sex with each other in that theater? A. Some men. 66) Q. Have you ever had sex with anyone in that theater? A. Yes. Once. 67) Q. When? Approximately what year did that event take place? A. I guess it was.. uh.. 1984.. 84, 85. 68) Q.

Were you aware in 1984-85 that there was a fatal disease out there called AIDS and that you could contract it through sexual activity? A. I'd heard of a thing.. uh.. a gay plague, the gay cancer. We didn't know how you could get it, or that it killed you. JUDGE. Do you need a break, Mr. Beckett? A. No, no, I could use some water, though. JUDGE. John, would you bring Mr. Beckett some water, please? 69) Q. While you were employed at Wyant Wheeler, you did everything you could to make sure no one knew you were an active homosexual, is that correct? A. No. That's not correct, I never lied about it. 70) Q. As a homosexual, one is often forced to conceal one's sexuality, isn't that right? A. In some circumstances, yes. 71) Q. Isn't it true that you've spent your life pretending to be something you're not, so much so that the art of concealment and dishonesty has become second nature to... PLAINTIFF. Your Honor, I object. 72) Q.

I'll withdraw it, your Honor. Mr. Beckett, were you living with Miguel Alvarez in 1984 or 85 when you had your anonymous sexual encounter in the porn theater? A. Yes. 73) Q. So you could have infected him, isn't that right? A. Miguel has not been infected. 74) Q. You didn't answer my question. You could have infected Mr. Alvarez at that time, isn't that correct? A. Yes. 75) Q. You've testified that the lesions on your face were visible to the people you worked with, correct? A. That's right. 76) Q. And it's your contention that when the partners were made aware of the lesions, that they leapt to the conclusion that you had AIDS and they fired you, is that correct? A. As painful as it is to accuse my former colleagues of such reprehensible behavior, it is the only conclusion I could come to. 77) Q. Do you have any lesions on your face at this time? A. One. Here. Right, ah, above my ear. ATTY: Your Honor, may I approach the witness? JUDGE Yes, you may.

78) Q. Remembering that you're under oath, answering truthfully, can you see the lesions of your face in this mirror from 3 feet away? Answering truthfully. A. At the time I was fired I had four lesions and they were much bigger. 79) Q. Could you answer the question, please? A. No, no. I can't really see it. ATTY: No more questions, your Honor. JUDGE. I think this would be a good time to break for the day. We can reconvene in the morning. PLAINTIFF. Your Honor, may I have 5 minutes in redirect? JUDGE. Mr. Beckett, can you go on for 5 minutes? 3 minutes! A. Yes, yes. 80) Q. May I borrow your mirror, please? Andrew, do you have any lesions on any part of your body at this time that resemble the lesions you had on your face at the time you were fired? A. Yes, on my tor-torso. 81) Q. On the torso.

If it please the court, I would like to ask Andrew to remove his shirt so that everyone can here can, you know, get a look at what we're talking about. DEFENSE. Objection! Your Honor, it would unfairly influence the jury. PLAINTIFF. Your Honor, if Andrew was forced to use a wheelchair due to his illness, would the defense ask him to park it outside because it would unfairly influence the jury? Come on, we're talking about AIDS, we're talking about lesions, let's see what we're talking about. COURT. I'll allow it. Mr. Beckett, would you please remove your shirt? 82) Q. Andrew, can you see the lesions on your chest in this mirror? A. Yes. ****** direct of defendant ***** Do you swear to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? I do. Please be seated. 83) Q. Mr. Wheeler, were you aware that Andrew Beckett was suffering from AIDS at the time of his departure from Wyant Wheeler? A. No. 84) Q. For absolute clarity, did you fire Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS. A.

No, I did not fire Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS. 85) Q. Mr. Wheeler, can you explain in a way that leaves no doubt why you promoted Andrew Beckett through your firm and then, most importantly, why you eventually asked him to leave? A. If, ah, you're the owner of a major league ball club, you recruit the hot rookie. And Andy was tremendously promising as a young attorney, fresh out of Penn, cracker jack. That's why we went after him, that's why we hired him, and that's why we stuck with him, year after year. 86) Q. Why did you give him opportunity after opportunity? A. Well, when you groom someone the way you groom Andy, nurturing him, lavishing all kinds of special treatment on him, you make quite an investment. And we were waiting for the promise to kick in and deliver. But ultimately, we could no longer ignore the gap between the reality and the promise. ******** cross ******* ATTY: Objection, your Honor, objection. JUDGE. All right, Mr. Miller, that'll be sufficient. 88) Q. Mr. Wheeler, you are magnificent, you are..

you are my hero, Andrew is right, you are the greatest. Are you gay? ATTY: Objection? JUDGE. The witness will kindly answer. A. No. I am not a homosexual. 89) Q. Isn't it true that when you realized Andrew Beckett, your golden boy, your future senior partner, was gay and had AIDS, it drove a stake of fear right through your heterosexual heart? Remembering all the hugs and the handshakes, the intimate moments in the sauna, the friendly pats on the backside that you and Andrew exchanged, like guys exchange sometimes...it made you say, my God, what does this say about me? ATTY: Objection, your Honor. JUDGE. The witness will please respond to the question. A. Mr. Miller, you may tap dance around me all you wish with your innuendos and locker-room fantasies, but the truth still remains that your client worked when he wanted to work, telling us what he thought we needed to know about who he really was. Andy insisted on bending the rules and his work suffered tremendously in the long run as a result of that. 90) Q.

Will you explain this to me like I'm a six-year-old, Mr. Wheeler, because I just don't get it. Who makes these rules that you're talking about. You? A. Read your Bible, Mr. Miller. Old and the New Testament. Pretty valuable rules in there. [Andrew collapses] . . . 91) Q. Did you notice any changes whatsoever in Andrew's appearance over the course of the year leading up to his termination? A. Yes. I did. 92) Q. Were these changes for the better for the worse? A. Sometimes for the better, but generally, they were for the worse. 93) Q. Mr. Seidman, what did you think caused these changes in Andy's appearance? A. I was afraid. I suspected Andy had AIDS. Judge: Order, order. Atty: Thank you. Your witness. ************* cross ********* 94) Q. Mr. Seidman, did you share your suspicions with Mr. Wheeler or any of the other managing partners at any time before the decision to fire Andrew Beckett was made? A. No, no, I didn't. I didn't mention it to anyone, not even Andy.

I didn't even give him a chance to talk about it. And I think I'm going to regret that for as long as I live. Judge: Any more questions, Ms. Conine? Atty: That's all, your Honor. . Philadelphia | Teen Movie Review of drama | Teen Ink More by this author The movie Philadelphia, written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme, is a movie based on the true story about lawyer Geoffrey Bowers. In the movie, the main character recreating the role of Geoffrey Bowers, was a man named Andrew Beckett. The story was about a lawyer in the late 1980s, who - after getting the fatal disease of AIDS - gets fired from the law firm he worked at and hires a lawyer to pursue a case against this unjust law firm for being discriminative towards Andrew. This movie was the first major film to discuss the topic of AIDS. Ironically, the case of Geoffrey Bowers was one of the first AIDS discrimination cases to be fought. Philadelphia came out in the year 1993 and at the time, AIDS was an extremely controversial and unspoken topic.

It depicts the life of Andrew Beckett (played by Tom Hanks), a very successful lawyer, who is diagnosed with AIDS. After being diagnosed, it starts to wear on him, and eventually his skin lesions start to become visible. Coincidentally, after the visibility of these lesions, he is told that his work was just “satisfactory” and ended up being fired from his law firm. He felt like the reason for being dismissed from his job was bogus and unfair. Beckett decides to file a lawsuit against his former bosses for firing him because he had AIDS. He hires homophobic lawyer, Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), to argue his case for him. Throughout the case, Miller becomes more sympathetic and receptive to the idea of homosexuality and is able to argue with all he has for Beckett’s case, as Beckett becomes more and more sick. In the end , Miller’s efforts are successful, as the law firm must pay Beckett millions in back pay and damages. Unfortunately, Beckett barely makes it to the end of the case and dies shortly after. The movie closely captures the story of Geoffrey Bowers and his struggle to fight against the discrimination of people with AIDS.

At the time, the AIDS epidemic spread all over, as deaths from this disease increased, so did the awareness of the disease. Many people felt strongly against the disease because of its prominent presence in the homosexual community, as also shown in the movie. So many of the general public were repulsed by it and the people who had AIDS, that some went as far as not wanting to be in the presence of a carrier. As disturbing and sad as this movie is, it was a milestone in the movie-making industry, by showing the reality and depth of the AIDS outbreak and discriminations that went along with it. Tom Hanks does a magnificent job in the role of Andrew Beckett. He puts the right emotions in for him at the perfect times, such as when he was in the courtroom, he was up at the podium to be questioned, you can really feel the agony and pain in him and it feels as if you personally were there sitting in the courtroom, watching him go through this traumatic period in his life. Also, Denzel Washington does a fabulous job being the homophobic lawyer taking on Andrew’s case.

You can see the changes throughout the views of Joe Miller, starting off with the intense hatred and disgust he shows for Andrew when he first speaks with him, and ending with the winning side in the case, as well as a close friend of Andrew, showing compassion and sympathy for him. Both did a wonderful job playing such extreme roles in this film. Although the movie was excellent in many aspects, it did lack in showing the relationship between Andrew and his domestic partner, Miguel Alvarez (Antonio Banderas), so much so that it barely felt real, which made the movie lack in some emotional aspects. Overall, Philadelphia was an exceptional movie that depicted amazingly how homosexuality and AIDS were viewed in the 1980s. Demme did an outstanding job in leaving the audience feeling a sense of victory due to the outcome of the case, in favor of Beckett, as well as a feeling of sorrow and mourn for the death of Beckett at the very end. The 125 minutes of this movie were a perfect mixture of suspense, controversy, and emotions. There’s even a good possibility that you may shed a tear towards the end. This movie is excellent and definitely a “must-see” movie for someone who likes serious, captivating movies.

Essay about Philadelphia Movie Summary - 2059 Words Philadelphia - Summary Main characters: ·Andrew Beckett: A handsome, self-assured hotshot law graduate from Penn is on a fast track to partnership at his lawfirm. But he's hiding a dark secret from his self-satisfied employers: he's HIV-positive. When he gets fired while battling AIDS he decides to bring suit. He is warmhearted and cares much for his family who - especially his lover Miguel and his mother Sarah - are extraordinarily supportive during the case. ·Joe Miller: At first he's reluctant to help him in suing Wyant, Wheeler mostly because of his bias' against gay people. He'd rather sue the city on behalf of people who have gone out of their way to bruise their ankles on municipal property than break new legal ground by equating workers with AIDS and those with other disabilities. But while Beckett and Miller prepare their case, they form a surprisingly deep bond and he starts seeing him as a fellow human worth of affection, compassion and respect. ·Belinda Conine: She is the counsel of Wyant and Wheeler and a senior lawyer of the firm and a quite attractive woman who is often underestimated by opponent counsels.

She has an excellent reputation and is said to be a ruthless strategist, often using her femininity as a weapon. She seems to be the perfect choice for this case, as Andrew thinks. She is not fond of the case as it obviously is a forced deception. In fact she even hates it, as she tells her team in one part of the book. She knows her clients are lying to her but she continues to do her job despite of the compassion she feels for Andrew Beckett. "You don't bring your personal life into a law firm", as Andrew says during the case ·Charles Wheeler: He is the senior of the firm carrying part of his name. He is reluctant towards gay people and thinks they are all deviants who should be expelled and put as far away from society as possible. Short Summary: The story involves Andrew Beckett, a skillful lawyer in the big Philadelphia law firm Wyant & Wheeler. The reader knows, although at first the law firm doesn't, that he has AIDS. Thus, he is forced to live a lie at work, claiming a Karposi's Sarcoma lesion as a bruise ('I got whacked in the head by a racket ball.") and even using his vacation time for visits to the hospital.

One day while Charles Wheeler, one of the four senior partners, hands him a case involving one of the firm's most important clients. Soon, however, the appearance of Karposi's sarcoma lesions on Andrew's face make it clear that he has developed AIDS. Mr. Kenton, another senior partner, notices on Beckett's forehead a telltale spot which he associates with the sarcoma often accompanied with an outbreak of AIDS. Andrew thinks he is on the high point of his young career until the nightmarish day when a vital file concerning the case disappears mysteriously while he's at the hospital. Later, after the dust has settled, he is told that he doesn't have a future within the firm and is fired for incompetence. He suspects he's being fired for being sick - and he's right (Wheeler: "Andy brought AIDS into our offices - into our men's rooms!"). Beckett determines to take a stand and sue the law firm which proves harder than he expects. No one he asks is willing to take on his powerful and influential former employers except a local ambulance chaser named Joe Miller. At first, even he's is reluctant because he doesn't like homosexuals.

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771 Words | 3 Pages FILM - 'Philadelphia' - Oscar Gives Way to Elegy - NYTimes.com FILM; 'Philadelphia': Oscar Gives Way to Elegy By CLIFFORD ROTHMAN; Published: January 1, 1995 ONE YEAR AGO, IN THE FILM "Philadelphia," Tom Hanks portrayed the gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who, at the beginning of the film, was seen at an AIDS clinic for an outpatient visit. As the IV drips, Andrew looks impassively around the room. Then the camera pans the faces: a once-handsome man, now gaunt to concentration-camp proportion, jokes about how an obtuse waitress offered him Sweet 'n' Low. "Do I look like I need an artificial sweetener, honey?" he says to the man sitting next to him. Farther down the row, another man sits quietly. He is a gentle, sandy-haired fellow of about 30, his face littered with lesions. Both the gaunt man, played by the New York actor Daniel Chapman, and the sandy-haired fellow, played by a novice actor, Mark Sorensen, are now dead.

They are among the 43 of the 53 people with AIDS or those who were H.I.V. positive in "Philadelphia" who are now dead. The group also included Ron Vawter, the gay actor who played Andrew's straight colleague (the lone voice of compassion within the white-shoe law firm), and Michael Callen, one of the singers in the Flirtations, the a cappella singing group that performs at Andrew's costume party. And it included Lou Digenio, who appeared as an extra in several scenes. Mr. Digenio, who was 34 when he died, did not want to be invisible in the courtroom scenes. So he dyed his hair henna red, to avoid getting lost in the crowd. "Philadelphia" became one of the most successful dramatic films of 1993, earning an Oscar for Tom Hanks and $125 million at the box office worldwide before it was released on video. But audiences may have forgotten about the men in the film with AIDS. Most of them had volunteered to populate the clinic, party and courtroom scenes; many played AIDS activists. The producers came to Action AIDS Philadelphia, a social services agency, for help in casting people with AIDS.

"I tried to cast interesting people," said Bruce Flannery, who represents the organization. "But it wasn't very complex. In some cases, they needed people who were sick looking -- in hospital scenes, for instance, where someone really robust would not have been right." By contrast, he said, "to participate in the courtroom scenes you had to be able to make the commitment to be available for a whole month, and be strong enough to withstand the grueling schedule, including long days of shooting." The selection process was fairly democratic, with anyone able to put in the necessary hours accepted as an extra. Jonathan Demme, the film's director, made a conscious decision to use as many people directly affected by the virus as possible. But the use of AIDS patients led to occasional tensions. One incident involved David Bertugli, an extra who had AIDS. Mr. Bertugli was washing up one day after filming and noticed that the extra standing next to him was scrubbing his own hands with alcohol. "You never know," said the man. "He was afraid he was going to catch H.I.V.," said Gary Bailey, who lives with Mr. Bertugli and was also an extra in the film.

Two years after "Philadelphia" was shot, Mr. Bertugli's T-cell count has dropped, along with his weight. Mr. Bailey reported that his family recently came to visit. "They were here to plan my funeral," he said. "Of all the conversations I've had with my parents, this one was the hardest. My father, who is politically a little to the right of Attila the Hun, cried like a baby. If anyone thinks that talking about sex is difficult, try talking to someone you care for about how they want to be buried." Last year, Tom Hanks was Hollywood's first poster boy for AIDS. Mark Sorensen, the sandy-haired fellow in the AIDS clinic, was its real poster boy. His lesions did not come off with cold cream. Had he not become H.I.V. positive and sought help from Action AIDS Philadelphia, he would have got no closer to a movie than the 10th row of a cineplex. By the time filming began in the fall of 1992, lesions from Kaposi's sarcoma covered Mr. Sorensen's face.

His mother, Ann Sorensen, who lives in Malvern, Pa., outside Philadelphia, remembers that her son had always been vain. As a teen-ager, she said, Mark had been tremendously concerned about his complexion. "If he got any marks on his face or anything, it would upset him terribly," she said. Mr. Sorensen's father, also named Mark, adds, "We spent many dollars at the doctors and the dermatologists." Yet when the son was ready to appear in the clinic scene in "Philadelphia," which was shot in a single afternoon, he confided to Tom Hanks that he did not want to wear makeup to hide his lesions. "And he didn't," Mrs. Sorensen recalled. "He said he wanted people to see how it really was." Fourteen months later, when Mr. Hanks won the Golden Globe award for best actor in a dramatic film, he remembered Mark Sorensen by name, paying tribute in his acceptance speech to his courage and humanity. Mr. Hanks went on to win an Oscar for the part as well, and to make an Oscar acceptance speech that also focused on the plight of people with AIDS.

Mark Sorensen did not live long enough to see either ceremony. Mr. Demme learned that the 31-year-old Mr. Sorensen was near death as the film makers were scoring the movie. "Jonathan immediately called his office," said Mr. Flannery of Action AIDS Philadelphia, "and had one of his assistants jump in the car with a rough, unedited videotape of the movie and drive it from Manhattan to Philadelphia." MRS. SORENSEN remembers the day: Sept. 16, 1993. Mr. Demme's assistant arrived at the door with a copy of the movie. "She hands us the film and says: 'Take your time. Whenever you're done with the film, call me, and I will come pick it up.' " Mark Sorensen was bedridden, but he did not want to watch the movie from his bed. His mother recalled, "We physically carried him, my husband and myself and our nephew, down the stairs from his bedroom to the living room, and we all watched the movie." . Mr. Sorensen died the next day. Mr. Sorensen was on camera for only three seconds in the film.

Ron Vawter, who had a much larger part, died last April on a jet while returning from Italy, where he had suddenly become gravely ill. Greg Mehrten, his partner of 14 years, remembers that the two of them had been sequestered in a cordoned-off section of the plane, with Mr. Vawter on a stretcher. "His heart just stopped," Mr. Mehrten recalled. For the next five hours, Mr. Mehrten flew with the body. "It was horrifying," he said. "I couldn't hear anyone, and I couldn't see anyone, except Ron. I had never really been with a dead person before." Although the singer, Michael Callen, had survived for a very long time with the AIDS virus, he was forced by his illness to stop touring with the Flirtations in February 1993, shortly after filming the scene for the movie. He died in Los Angeles a year ago at the age of 38. The emaciated Daniel Chapman was in a weakened state by the time he appeared in the clinic scene. "He would have been a star," said his mother, Lorraine.

He died almost a year ago at the age of 41, after being hospitalized with a stroke. Photos: Jonathan Demme--The director rushed a copy of the film to a dying extra. (Stephanie Berger); The Flirtations (Cliff Townsend, left, Jon Arterton, Jimmy Rutland, Michael Callen and Aurelio Font) in the film "Philadelphia." (Ken Regan/Camera 5)(pg. 24); Tom Hanks, left, Daniel Chapman, center, and Karen Finley, standing, in a scene from "Philadelphia"--"He would have been a star," says Mr. Chapman's mother. (Ken Regan/Camera 5)(pg. 9) Clifford Rothman has written about the arts for The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Question: Who played lawyer Andrew Beckett in the 1993 film ‘Philadelphia’?
Answer: Tom Hanks